Web 2.0 New Tools, New Schools by: Gwen Solomon and Lynne Schrum
Book Study
Reader's Response
Chapter 1 New World, New Web, New Skills
Chapter 2 Students and Learning
Chapter 3 New Tools
One aspect of Web 2.0 tools is that they are free programs that could replace the traditional application suites for which schools ordinarily must pay.
To be literate today involves acquiring new skills, including those of using technology, understanding science, having global awareness, an most important, having the ability to keep learning.
It is project based and inspires collaboration among users. Students come to school knowledgable about the Web and its potential, are comfortable using it, and expect learning in school to be more like learning on their own.
Project-basded learning allows for alternative approaches that address students' individual differences, variations in learning styles, intelligences and abilities and disabilities.
Today's students know that they are tech-savvy and report that their schools are not.
Businesses are aware of the change in young people's habits and now spend substantial dollars in advertising online.
Podcasting is a way to distribute multimedia files such as music or speech over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.
A wiki is a Web page and as such is accessible to anyone with a Web browser and an Internet connection.
Flikr is perhaps the best known of the free online photo management and sharing applications.
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Chapter 2 Students and Learning
Chapter 3 New Tools
To be literate today involves acquiring new skills, including those of using technology, understanding science, having global awareness, an most important, having the ability to keep learning.
It is project based and inspires collaboration among users. Students come to school knowledgable about the Web and its potential, are comfortable using it, and expect learning in school to be more like learning on their own.
Project-basded learning allows for alternative approaches that address students' individual differences, variations in learning styles, intelligences and abilities and disabilities.
Today's students know that they are tech-savvy and report that their schools are not.
Businesses are aware of the change in young people's habits and now spend substantial dollars in advertising online.
Podcasting is a way to distribute multimedia files such as music or speech over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.
A wiki is a Web page and as such is accessible to anyone with a Web browser and an Internet connection.
Flikr is perhaps the best known of the free online photo management and sharing applications.
Chapter 5 Professional Development
Chapter 6 Leadership and New Tools
Chapter 8 Systemic Issues
Chapter 9 New Schools